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It's a fact of life that nanoparticles are everywhere: from sunscreen to underwear to performance wear - they are an invisible part of everyday life. Nanotechnology has made some promising inroads, but could these undetectable bits

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Is There Anything We CAN'T Do With Carbon Nanotubes?
digg_url = 'http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/11/carbon-nanotube-sponge-toxic-oil-cleanup-180x-weight.php';Cleaning up toxic spills has always been

If, in the United States, you happen to decided you'd like to earn your PhD in chemistry, you may notice that at no point are you required to take a course in toxicology. This is partly the reason we're now being assaulted by a growing mob of dangerous

Guess What the First Application Will Be
Prepare to be played. The Swiss Micro Finance firm, Micro Finance Investment AG, knows how to use new media. The are now feeding out tiny tidbits of bait to generate a whirlwind of interest in what promises to be

Just when I thought I knew every app available for Apple's iPhone, I stumble across Enviro-Bear 2010: Operation Hibernation. If you've been searching for a quasi-green video game for your multimedia smartphone well,

Trees use sunlight to forge carbon dioxide and water into a useful fuel. It is an elegantly simple strategy, using renewable energy and common non-toxic elements that has worked for millions of years. Why don’t we do the same thing,

If the electric Mini can have motors in its wheels why can't science geeks get molecular motors in their labs? After graduating college I spent a good three years of my life moving small volumes of fluid from one tube to another,

2008 was a banner year in the green world, and with events like the economic recession came some pretty interesting pictures. Sometimes funny, occasionally sad, always poignant, check out our gallery for 2008: The Year in Pictures and Images to see if

I have to admit I'm a sucker when it comes to scanning electron microscope (SEM) images. Many of the objects and patterns we see in nature that we may think of being bland or uninteresting take on new resonance when seen through the prism of an

Nanotech has some seriously cool potential for products that help us live greener lives. However, we know that how these products are made is just as important to the environment as what they help us to accomplish.

We may not be talking megawatts (let alone watts) of potential energy here, but a new artificial cell created by researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Yale University could be used to power the next generation of

Over in Wales, Tony Wrench's "ecohome of wood frame, cobwood and recycled window walls, straw-insulated turf roof; with solar power and wind turbine for electricity, compost toilet and reed beds for grey water" has just been granted approval after a

Many people believe that lack of efficient enough storage is one of the hurdles to be cleared before renewable energy can truly reach its potential. Towards that end, scientists from the University of Texas as Austin have announced

Ultracapacitors
"Imagine a cell-phone battery that recharges in a few seconds and that you would never have to replace. That's the promise of energy-storage devices known as ultracapacitors, but at present, they can store only about 5 percent as much